I did everything I was able to do so” – she said, pointing to several months negotiations with the European Union. Recalling the figure of Sir Nicholas Winton, who saved hundreds of children from the Holocaust by their deportation to Nazi-occupied Czechoslovakia to Britain May revealed the advice he received from him a few years [...]

Send a postcard to Michelle Obama End High Stakes TestingTime Out From Testing and other organizations and individuals from across the country are launching a May 29th postcard campaign asking First Lady Michelle Obama to encourage the President to put an end to the use of High Stakes Testing. On the campaign trail, Michelle Obama [...]

Epitaph for a Young TeacherMonticello GroundsHamlet teaches much. The play taught me that the dead depend upon the living to tell their story. The dead, after all, first linger in our thoughts and prayers and then disappear inside old photograph albums. A few notable dead have monuments built to remind people that they once lived [...]